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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Summer Vacation Has Begun!

We
got back from our ten-day East Coast trip on Sunday night. The trip was a
mixture of joyful reunions, fun, relaxation, and work all in one. Somehow, it
left me feeling happy, anxious, and exhausted. These jumble of emotions are
still cycling inside me but somehow I find one particular emotion that keeps
coming up, anticipation of the unknown. Not knowing if I can find a teaching
job after we move to Maryland opens up a world of possibilities… I could blog
full time, go through yoga teacher training, become a baker, become an apprentice at Les Petits Bisous! (seriously, I'm in love), find a boring 9-5
job, what have you!

Today,
I am taking some time off from contemplating about my future and just reliving
our whirlwind trip. We went to a lovely wedding in Pennsylvania where I got to
meet DFJ’s friends from high school and danced until my feet hurt. Two days were
spent area scoping and house hunting in Maryland. After a dinner of sushi and
spicy Korean noodle soup in Baltimore, we got soaked from head to toe during a
torrential downpour on our way back to the hotel. I clutched DFJ’s waist like
my life depended on it and ducked under our broken umbrella, squealing and
laughing the whole time. DFJ, on the other hand, didn’t revel as much in the
comedy of the situation. At the end of house hunting, day two, we gave up on
the conquest and drove to Long Beach Island in New Jersey instead to enjoy
some peace and much needed rest.

A
family friend of DFJ’s offered to let us stay at her family’s LBI beach house
as a wedding present and we gratefully took her up on that. Her house was
lovely and only a hundred footsteps away from the beach. Wednesday was DFJ’s
birthday and we spent the day eating a leisurely breakfast, drinking coffee and
reading books in the back patio, and sun bathing. We lay on the beach, sunk our
toes in the hot sand, walked along the seashore, and dipped in the cold water
when we got too hot. Sun kissing my skin + taste of salt water on my lips =
pure bliss! That night, we celebrated DFJ’s birthday with a delicious dinner at
Pinzimminio’s (if you happen to be in Long Beach Island, do yourselves a favor and dine there, they know how to make food!). Then we went home and played Risk for hours. The next day was stormy,
so we burrowed in the house with our books, pastries, and tea until the sun
came out again. We explored the southern part of the island until the rain
forced us to take shelter in a coffee shop with some decadent cake and hot
coffee. We eventually drove back to the beach house, where we had a dinner of leftovers,
asparagus, and corn, and capped the night with another round of Risk.

We
headed back to Pennsylvania on Friday for some family time with DFJ’s family
and then to New Jersey to see my Aunt and her family. Living closer to our
families is definitely one of the best things about moving to the East Coast. When
we said our goodbyes, there was not a hint of sadness on both sides, only
excitement about being in the same time zone and a mere hundred or so miles of distance
between one another.

Now
that we’re back home, I’m slowly trying to get into the swing of things. On my
first free day, I was feeling indolent, but somehow mustered up the strength to
go to a yoga class and do a bit of grocery shopping. I cooked again after days
of not making my own food and it felt so good… it felt like home. More on that
in the next post!

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